Phi Alpha Theta

Tennessee Regional Conference

 

 

Registration:  9:00-10:00am

          Henderson Hall, Room 205

 

*All panels will be located in Henderson Hall.  Room 205 is provided as a lounge for conference attendees and will be open throughout the conference, except during lunch.

 

 

 

Session I:  10:00am – 11:45

           

Panel 1:  Sports History – Room 114

            Chair: Dr. Wali Kharif (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“The Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Football and Rugby in Nineteenth-Century England”

Gabriel Fidler (Lee University)

 

“Branch Rickey: Winning Outweighs Discrimination”

Marcus Hawkins (Middle Tennessee State University)

 

“Football, Fashion and Fascism in Southwest London: The National Front and Chelsea Casual Culture, 1975-1985”

R. Michael Booker (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

 

Panel 2:  American Law and Lawlessness – Room 108

            Chair: Dr. George Webb (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“Valiant Val and Habeas Corpus: A Battle Between Democracy and Despotism”

Alan Orrison (Southern Adventist University)

 

“The Not-So-Wild West”

Juli Gatling (Southern Adventist University)

 

“Who is Responsible for the Death Sentence of Tennessee Death Row Inmate Abu-Ali Abdur/Rahman?”

David Griffin (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

 

Panel 3:  Medieval Europe – Room 214

            Chair:             Dr. Susan Laningham (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“Christendom: One Nation, Under God”

Scot Oldham (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“Uniformity of Early Christianity in the British Isles”

Karl Kestel (Lee University)

 

“How to Stop the Apocalypse or How Medieval Folk Attempted to Heal and Contain the Plague”

Hannah Holland (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“Medieval Queenship and Pious Identity”

Casey Fox (Tennessee Tech University)

 

 

 

LUNCH:  12:00-1:30pm

            Tech Pride Room in Roaden University Center

 

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Charles Robinson – University of Arkansas

What’s Sex Got to Do With It? Black and White Responses to Interracial Relationships

 

 

 

 

Session II:  1:45 – 3:00pm

 

           

Panel 4:  20th Century America – Room 108

            Chair:             Dr. Patrick Reagan (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“Roosevelt and Truman: Bipartisan Builders for the Common Good”

John Young (Middle Tennessee State University)

 

“Man on the Moon”

Kelly Kerr (Middle Tennessee State University)

 

“Unwilling ‘soldiers in the war against brutal inflation’: Congress, the Veterans, and the Fight with Gerald R. Ford over the 1974 G.I. Bill”

Mark Boulton (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

 

Panel 5:  World History – Room 214

            Chair:            Dr. Lisa Diller (Southern Adventist University)

 

“Frank Calvert: The True Discoverer of Troy”

Nancy Cooper (Lee University)

 

“Samurai Involvement in the Meiji Restoration”

Philip Authier (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“Czar Peter Romanov”

Howard Flemings (Lee University)

 

Panel 6:  African-American History – Room 114

            Chair:             Dr. Charles Robinson (University of Arkansas)

 

“Washington, DuBois and Jim Crow”

Jonathan Carroll (Lee University)

 

“Problems with the Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Chad Shores (Lee University)

 

“Langston Hughes: Political Poet”

(Middle Tennessee State University)

 

Panel 7:  Art, Music and the Media – Room 216A

                        Chair:             Dr. Michael Birdwell (Tennessee Tech University)

                                   

“Music Has No Borders: Western Rock Music Behind the Iron Curtain and the Subversive Soviet Rock Culture”

Daniel Ryan (Lee University)

 

“World War One: Effects on Art and Poetry”

Jennifer Watson (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“A Journalistic Perspective of the Popularity of General Ambrose E. Burnside After the Battle of Fredericksburg”

Matthew Gilkey (Southern Adventist University)

 

 

Session III:  3:45-5:00pm

           

Panel 8:  American Religion and Morals – Room 114

            Chair:             Dr. Mary Waalkes (Lee University)

 

“Mormons, Polygamy and Statehood”

Ed Beason (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“Alcohol in the United States”

Stacey Tatter (Lee University)

 

“A World of Their Own: Alabama Catholics During the 1920s and 1930s”

Amanda Quackenbush (Middle Tennessee State University)

 

Panel 9:  U.S. Civil War – Room 108

            Chair: Dr. Amy Staples (Middle Tennessee State University)

 

“‘Don’t Write Gloomy Letters’: Why Despair At Home Caused Confederate

 Soldiers to Desert”

Katherine Sheffield (Southern Adventist University)

 

“‘How to Save the Republic’: Organized Colonization of the South

 During the Civil War”

Cinnamon Brown (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

 

Panel 10:  19th and 20th Century Europe – Room 214

Chair:             Dr. Jeff Roberts (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“Assassination and Russia”

Zach Sullivan (Lee University)

 

“William ‘Lord Haw Haw’ Joyce and the Ineffectiveness of

Nazi English-Language Propaganda”

Aaron Horton (East Tennessee State University)

 

“Searching for Oneself: German Identity after the Holocaust”

Jamie Bryan Price (East Tennessee State University)

 

Panel 11:  The American Frontier – Room 216A

            Chair:             Dr. Katherine Osburn (Tennessee Tech University)

 

“From the Peat Bogs of Ireland to the White House: A Tale of Irish Immigrants”

Robin Posgay (Lee University)

 

“Her Name was Madeline”

Wanda VanderVeen (Lee University)

 

“Wealth and Cultural Identity: A Study of the Unique History of the Osage Indians”

Joseph Waarvik (Middle Tennessee State University)

 

“The Eastern Vision of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898”

                                                Charles Sears (Tennessee Tech)

 

 

The Kappa Tau Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta at Tennessee Technological University wishes to express its appreciation to the following people for their contributions in making this conference possible.

 

Judges:  Dr. Lisa Diller (Southern Adventist), Dr. Jason Ward (Lee), Dr. Michael Bertrand (TSU), Dr. Sheri Bartlett Browne (TSU), Dr. Emmett Essin (ETSU), Dr. Ronnie Day (ETSU), Dr. Louis Haas (MTSU), Dr. Jeff Roberts (TTU), Dr. Paula Hinton (TTU), Dr. Katherine Osburn (TTU), Dr. Michael Birdwell (TTU), Dr. Susan Laningham (TTU)

 

Chairs:  Dr. Mary Waalkes (Lee), Dr. Amy Staples (MTSU), Dr. Wali Kharif (TTU), Dr. George Webb (TTU), Dr. Susan Laningham (TTU), Dr. Patrick Reagan (TTU), Dr. Lisa Diller (Southern Adventist), Dr. Charles Robinson (University of Arkansas), Dr. Michael Birdwell (TTU), Dr. Jeff Roberts (TTU), Dr. Katherine Osburn (TTU)

 

A special thank you to Dr. Charles Robinson of the University of Arkansas

 

 

Kappa Tau Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta

2004-2005

President: Liz Kassera

Vice-president: Jen Douglas

Secretary: Casey Fox

Treasurer: Emily Weber

Historian: Jennifer Watson

Scot Oldham  Hannah Holland  Charles Sears  Brian Franklin  Gary Gravely  Ed Beason  Adam Zwicker  Travis Duke  Sarah Seitzinger  Amanda Jones  Philip Authier